迈克尔·伯里（Michael Burry）因在金融危机前预测房价会下跌而闻名。如今，他正领导一个组织，试图阻止在硅谷一个高档小镇上建造25栋住宅。这些住宅位于他住所所在山坡的上方。
Burry, famous for betting against the housing market before the financial crisis, is leading a group seeking to block the construction of 25 homes uphill from where he lives in a tony Silicon Valley town.
伯里是“负责任与公平发展协会”（Citizens for Responsible and Equitable Development, CRED）的主席，该协会已向加州法院提起诉讼，要求禁止这个位于萨拉托加（Saratoga）的项目的建设。该项目包括为低收入家庭建造的5栋住宅。他们在9月17日的诉状中指出，如果发生野火，这些新建住宅会严重阻碍当地的疏散通道。
Burry is president of Citizens for Responsible and Equitable Development, which asked a state court to block the hillside project in Saratoga, California, including five homes for lower-income households. Its Sept. 17 complaint alleges the development would overwhelm an evacuation route in the event of a wildfire.
这位55岁的投资者因在2008年金融危机前准确预测房价下跌而声名鹊起；迈克尔·刘易斯（Michael Lewis）的著作《点石成金》（In the Money Zone）详细记录了他的投资经历，而克里斯蒂安·贝尔（Christian Bale）在电影中饰演了伯里的角色。
The 55-year-old investor gained renown for betting against the housing market ahead of the 2008 crash, trades chronicled in Michael Lewis’s book In the film version, Burry was played by Christian Bale.
如今，伯里正在反对这个位于他住所附近的开发项目。该项目占地72英亩，距离旧金山以南约50英里（80公里）。在9月23日发布的博客文章中，伯里表示，新增的住宅只会加剧现有的疏散风险。
Now Burry is challenging the 72-acre development near his own home in Saratoga, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of San Francisco. In a Sept. 23 blog post, Burry argued that additional housing would compound existing evacuation dangers.
“我们成立‘负责任与公平发展协会’，是为了让当地居民能够对萨拉托加地区过度开发的问题发声，”伯里写道。
“We established CRED to give residents a voice against overdevelopment in the fire-prone Saratoga hills,” he wrote.
该项目已经陷入僵局：7月份被规划委员会否决，但一个月后又被市议会一致批准。
The project has been in limbo for months, rejected by the planning commission in July, then unanimously approved by the city council a month later.
开发商Chateau Masson LLC的律师布莱恩·温特（Bryan Wenter）表示，该项目在环境评估中已经充分考虑了野火疏散的相关风险。
Bryan Wenter, a lawyer for the developer Chateau Masson LLC, said the environmental review fully addressed the wildfire evacuation risks.
温特称：“根据加州住房法规，市官员有权也有义务批准这个项目。”
City officials “had the right to approve and the obligation under state housing law to approve this project,” Wenter said.
“负责任与公平发展协会”的律师未能被联系到，伯里也没有回应记者的评论请求。该市的公共事务官员科琳·米奇纳（Corinne Mitchner）通过电子邮件表示，除非法院另有裁决，否则开发商可以开始施工。
Lawyers for CRED couldn’t be reached for comment. Burry didn’t respond to a request for comment. Corinne Mitchner, the city’s public affairs officer, said in an email that the developer can begin work unless a court orders otherwise.
米奇纳还提到，伯里虽然提交了几份信息公开申请，但在项目获得批准之前并未对该项目发表任何直接评论。
Burry submitted several public records requests, but didn’t directly comment on the project before its approval, Mitchner said.
这一提议遭到了支持住房建设的组织 YIMBY Action 的批评。该组织认为，在制定野火应对计划时，应同时保护现有居民的利益，并允许新建住房。
The challenge drew criticism from YIMBY Action, a pro-housing advocacy group, which argues that wildfire planning should protect existing residents while allowing new housing.
“他们利用关于野火的讨论来表达‘我们要关闭大门（即拒绝新建住房）’的立场，”该组织在加州的负责人 Leora Tanjuatco Ross 在接受采访时说，“加州长期以来一直存在住房短缺的问题。我们认为应该建造各种类型的住房。”
“They’re using the conversation about wildfires to say ‘we’re going to close our doors,’” Leora Tanjuatco Ross, the group’s California director, said in an interview. “California has a historic housing shortage. We believe you should build housing of all kinds.”